sorry for the late reply been a little busy, first of all thanks for the feedback and secondly changing the icon size and font size is pretty easy to do yourself, just navigate to the folder where the shell theme is stored and open gnome-shell.css and search for .system-status-icon {there change the icon-size to the one you like the one i've kept on is 14px, as for the app font search for .app-well-app > .overview-icon and change font-size to what you would like and thats it.

The first one is a missing background in the online status combobox in the user's menu. Gnome 3.2 introduced this new widget.

The second is more serious. This theme - like many others - causes the shell to freeze completely when the search feature is used. Most of the time the shell freezes instantly after typing in the first character.

The latter one must be due to some API/styling changes in Gnome 3.2 since many of the themes that worked with 3.0 will now cause shell freeze.

I checked GDM logs and there was nothing printed. Also .xsession-errors didn't seem to have anything useful.

I forgot to mention I have two computers running Gnome 3.2 and they both suffer of the freeze caused by the themes. One is running i686 and the other one is x86_64. I have tried resetting Gnome configs to no avail. Also the other computer has had a clean installation of the OS.

ripple effect looks great mate...
i had to edit the css file with rtl1.svg (instead of rtl thats shown in css) left to right works fine... would be great if right to left works too !
overall a nice theme... the thin top panel looks good too. wonder it will look awesome with the sides with a small curvature ? (as in default adwaita)